Creating Murals, Kathmandu Metropolis, 'QR Code' for heritage buildings
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Kathmandu Metropolitan City is going to create murals for the beauty of public places in its area. For this, the Metropolitan Corporation has already entered into an agreement with the Institute of Fine Arts.
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Suraj Shakya, Head of Public Works Department, informed that in the first phase, permission has been given to create murals on the wall on the right side of Babar Mahal from Maitighar, the wall of the exhibition road, the wall outside the international airport as well as Meen Bhavan and the wall of the Samajkalyan Parishad at Lainchour. According to the
approved samples, the establishment will make murals at those places. Chief Shakya said that this work will be completed by the end of May 2081. The establishment will submit an action plan with the location and area for making the mural.
will work based on the approved action plan. The foundation can contract with individuals and organizations to make pictures. When doing work in this way, it will be the responsibility of the establishment to make contracts, give mandates, evaluate, pay, and bear responsibility.
QR code for heritage landmarks
The Municipal Corporation has kept a QR code to provide information about the landmarks of Nandikeshar Temple, Shankarkirti Mahavihar and Naxal Bhagwati Temple. 'The Ward Office has started using technology so that visitors who come to visit monuments of cultural, historical and archaeological importance can easily get information,' said Bharatlal Shrestha, Chairman of Ward No. 1. This kind of arrangement is made so that after scanning the QR, no one has to ask to know about the ancient history of the temple, Jatra festival, social and religious rituals related to it.'
QR code can listen to audio in 10 languages including Nepali, English, German, Hindi, French, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Japanese and Arabic. In Ward No. 1, there are cultural heritages like Nagpokhari, Hitipokhari, Chaturbhuj Narayan, Goma Ganesh, Nandikeshar Bagaincha, Harihar Narayan (half Vishnu half Shiva), Sai Kendra, Sorahiti, Jamal Vihar, Lal Ganesh etc. in Ward No. 1.
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